Delivering equitable healthcare is a global challenge. There are certain groups of patients which continue to perform poorly on clinical indicators compared to other patients. Gender, socio-economic status, distance from treatment centre and parental education are well established factors which influence the treatment outcomes.
Thanks to the amazing success of the centres part of the Sankalp-Cure2Children network for Pediatric BMT, we are receiving more and more requests from families who have a thalassemic kid looking for the option of cure. While we do guide them on a case by case basis there are some key points which we have observed.
This Independence Day brought a new cheer and new hope to the coastal city of Mangalore. Sankalp India Foundation took a new step towards providing systematic care and management for many more children by setting up a thalassemia day care centre at District Wenlock Hospital.
Mangalore Today News Network
Aug 15, 2017: The 71st Independence Day celebrations will usher in cheer and new hope for hundreds of thalassaemic in Dakshina Kannada district.
A thalassaemia day care centre with six beds in RAPCC building (second floor) in district Wenlock Hospital will be inaugurated on August 15 at 11 am, said Wenlock Hospital superintendent and district surgeon Dr Rajeshwari Devi H R.
The Government Wenlock Hospital will open a six-bed day-care centre for thalassaemia patients on Tuesday.
Hospital Superintendent H.R. Rajeshwaridevi said the centre will operate on the second floor of the Regional Advanced Paediatric Care Centre. It will move to the ground floor of the hospital’s new medical block that will be ready by October.
Sankalp India Foundation dedicated 8th of May to commemorate both the thalassemia patients who are no longer with us but are always close in our heart and to celebrate with all those patients who are alive and fighting everyday for their right to a better quality of life.
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